Download 1. XAMPP-and-LAMP-Introduction

XAMPP and LAMP
Installing, Configuring,
Running XAMP and LAMP
Mario Peshev
Technical Trainer
http://peshev.net
Software University
http://softuni.bg
Table of Contents
1. What is XAMPP?
2. XAMP - advantages
3. Download and Install XAMPP
4. XAMPP Control Panel
5. XAMPP Directories
6. Configuring XAMPP
7. LAMP: PHP, Apache and MySQL
in Linux Environment
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What is XAMPP
Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl
What is XMAPP?
XAMPP (/ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/) is a free and open source
cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting
mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and
interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl
programming languages.
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Etymology
XAMPP’s name is an acronym for:
X
(to be read as “cross”, meaning cross-platform
 Apache
HTTP Server
 MySQL
 PHP
 Perl
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Advantages
Why use XAMPP?
 The most popular PHP developer package
 For Windows, Mac OS X & Linux
 Easy installation and configuration
 Completely free of charge
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Download and Install
Download and Install
 Go to: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
 Download the installer (you may need to run it as
administrator)
 Usual windows installation Next->Next->Finish
 It will install itself as a tray icon
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Collision with Skype
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Collision with VMWare
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Control Panel
Windows process
identifier
Used ports
System messages
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Collision with other Web Server
 There may be WAMP or IIS installed too
 The best solution is to change the port
 From the Tray Icon, left click and

Go to .\apache\conf -> httpd.conf

Search for “Listen 80”

Replace with “Listen 8080” for example

Access http://localhost:8080/
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XAMPP Directories
Directories
 ./htdocs – location of public html files
 ./apache – location of configuration
 ./mysql – location of MySQL database
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Configuration
Configuration files
 Apache configuration file
(httpd.conf): .\apache\conf\httpd.conf
 PHP configuration file (php.ini): .\apache\bin\php.ini
 MySQL configuration file (my.cnf): .\mysql\bin\my.cnf
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LAMP
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
LAMP
LAMP is an open source Web development platform that uses
Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server,
MySQL as the relational database management system and
PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.
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Download and Install on Ubutntu
 Open terminal, then just write: sudo apt-get
install lamp-server^
 Location of web page: /var/www
 Make your first page and then test with
localhost
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Summary
 We discussed the WAMPP:
 Downloading and Installation
 Configuration
 Collision with other software
 We discussed the LAMP:
 Downloading and Installation
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PHP & MySQL
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License
 This course (slides, examples, demos, videos, homework, etc.)
is licensed under the "Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International" license
 Attribution: this work may contain portions from

"PHP Manual" by The PHP Group under CC-BY license

"PHP and MySQL Web Development" course by Telerik Academy under CC-BY-NC-SA license
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